Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

And I had been telling my partners for a couple of years that I thought Ethan was one of the more talented entrepreneurs I had come across in San Francisco. As you know I believe in Lines, not Dots. I told Ethan on the spot that I wanted to be the lead investor in his new company.

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Southern California San Francisco CTO Hire SEM 359

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Local politicians wanting to see local job creation rather than jobs at tech firms all migrating to San Francisco should be heartened. Does it surprise you that the fastest-growing “unicorn” was launched in Los Angeles and not San Francisco? Not at all. Why scooters? Can’t people just ride bikes or walk?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

I would see Marc Benioff in the line for Starbucks at One Market in San Francisco and probably few could pick him out of a line up then. If they didn’t care about him they certainly didn’t care about me or Jason Lemkin or Jason Calacanis or any of us.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. After the success of Smart Bear, I should be setting my sights on something big, not this.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. We have long wanted to move but wanted to wait for the perfect space. We love all of LA and fund all regions. In fact, we fund nationally and occasionally internationally.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

But he has helped put Boulder on the consciousness of so many young, aspiring entrepreneurs in search of somewhere other than the San Francisco Bay Area to work & live. That seems likely to be dominated by a more urban startup from NYC or from San Francisco. It is possible and he’s showing people that.

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Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis. Was it hard to raise the fund?

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Las Vegas St. Louis Southern California San Diego 396

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

We built “book it now” functionality in LA and then San Francisco. We spent a year (2012-2013) building a merchant acquisition machine and all of the systems to support bookings, calendar integrations, location services, etc. and then took the lid off of the product by announcing the company – I wrote about that here.

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Development Team Review Los Angeles San Francisco Mobile 324

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 15, 2013

So when Austin said he wanted to move to San Francisco from eponymous Austin (Texas), supporting his move was a no-brainer. But wait, what if Austin finds a hot new startup in San Francisco and bails on us? So welcome to San Francisco, Austin. But wait, isn’t that an HR no-no? We love you.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So There You Have It We have an amazing team including our newest Partner, Aditi Maliwal, who runs our FinTech investment practice and is based in San Francisco. I’ll help own functions but I mostly just want to back great founders and not have to own all the other BS.”

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Partner Management Cofounder San Francisco 361

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2019

In an attempt to thwart this trend, Mountain View and San Francisco have proposed local rules and ordinances aimed at putting an end to employer-provided free meals. On July 24, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors introduced an ordinance seeking to ban in-house cafeterias in any newly constructed buildings.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

We brought Ryan Lissack down from San Francisco to become Maker’s CTO and the rest is history. And just so it’s clear that I practice what I preach … When it was time to bring on a CTO at Maker Studios in the early days, I passed over many local LA video CTOs and found the one guy I KNEW could deliver magic for us.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

For example, everybody should easily be able to follow Holger’s top sushi spots in San Francisco. It seems that FourSquare’s strategy has appropriately broadened from “check ins” to “discovery” of great places to eat or visit. That’s a list I plan to work through. (by FourSquare in the future?

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Mobile Web Software Review San Francisco 334

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

And by my Instagram photo or Tweets he must have realized I was in San Francisco and would need to get to Mountain View (an hour away) to speak. He was polite about it. Months later I did agree with Christine Tsai that I would come out and talk to the class. He texted me and offered to give me a ride down there.

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San Francisco Jordan Angel Investor Partner 372

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

We have two big winners in France, one in the UK and a couple in San Francisco. Our other big wins came from Chicago (Ulta & Envestnet), Baltimore (BillMeLater), New York (DealerTrack) & LA (TrueCar).

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Partner Las Vegas San Francisco Baltimore 285

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2019

Named to the Forbes’ “30 Under 30” and Debrett’s 500 lists, Johnston lives in San Francisco. Johnston previously served as a designer for Google, a role that exposed him to the challenges presented by freelancer management and, ultimately, inspired him to establish Kalo (formerly Lystable).

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Based in San Francisco, Passport is a startup launched in 2017 that assists brands with the digital, logistics and regulatory aspects of cross-border shipping. This is in sharp contrast to the standard exchange rate offered by banks, which is altered to create a profit for them. billion public offering in December 2020.

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San Francisco Securities and Exchange Commission Myanmar Startup 158

YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2017

They popularized the idea of creating a marketplace for applications that would help their customers, and created an incredibly popular annual conference, Dreamforce, that always sells out nearly every room in the city of San Francisco. Stitch Fix. ’ This is an example of the subscription model at its finest.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2020

Since then, in about 3 months, we’ve fed over 170,000 people and injected over $1mm into the local economy in San Francisco and Detroit. Fortunately, Jeff Nobbs (one of the pillars of the HelpKitchen team) is the co-owner of Kitava , a restaurant in San Francisco.

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Lean San Francisco Technical Review Software Review 128

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 21, 2020

He will be based in San Francisco with me. And we’re continually surprised at his many skills and interests. He loves basketball. He practices Vipassana meditation. So please join me and Boris in welcoming Max to the Version One team.

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Mexico San Francisco Technical Review Software Review 148

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

San Francisco and Tel Aviv are two of the greatest cities in the world for tech, each with a distinct culture and unique benefits to offer. Leadspace was founded in 2010 and maintains offices in both San Francisco and just outside Tel Aviv in Hod HaSharon, Israel. Let’s start with San Francisco.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

Everyone in San Francisco? Select the messenger you want to carry your message. Step 1: Who’s the Audience(s)? An audience means – who specifically you want your messages to reach. Is it all the people on earth? Potential customers such as gamers who like to play specific types of games?

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Marketing Audience Technical Review PR 318

The Startup Magazine

MAY 2, 2022

The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The Bitcoin trading platform Coinbase has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of North Carolina’s progress. Coinbase is a digital currency exchange that allows users to buy and sell bitcoins. Coinbase has been very successful in North Carolina.

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North Carolina San Francisco Raleigh New York 171

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Celina Kirchner is a full-stack attorney at Michelman & Robinson, LLP (M&R), a national law firm with offices in Los Angeles, Orange County (California), San Francisco, Chicago and New York. My hope is that the answer is you. She’s based in L.A.,

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2020

When Uber coordinated its first ride in San Francisco in 2010, it changed the transportation game. Change is unavoidable in business. When Netflix began streaming media directly to customers in 2007, it changed the face of home entertainment.

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Los Angeles Green San Francisco Community 218

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2017

San Francisco startup Plenty’s innovative use of artificial intelligence (AI) has attracted $200 million in funding from SoftBank Vision Fund, the world’s biggest tech fund. Plenty uses AI machine learning in conjunction with IoT sensors to grow crops indoors with only water, nutrients and light.

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Artificial Inteligence Operations San Francisco Technical Review 173

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

United States San Francisco Bay Home to Silicon Valley, which houses some of the most prominent tech startups and multinational firms, the San Francisco Bay area remains one of the top startup hubs in the U.S. Competition is tight, but recent layoffs and uncertainty have created new possibilities for entrepreneurs.

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South Africa New York City San Francisco Silicon Valley 136

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

And aside from the obvious pride of getting involved with your home town, you obviously know a lot more about the local strengths of human resources that places like San Francisco, NY or LA might be quicker to dismiss. And so it’s much easier to catch them on the bookends of these trips to spend time in your community.

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Community San Diego Silicon Valley Los Angeles 378

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’ve decided to take all of my private conversations and subjective points-of-view on the topic and make them public in a keynote speech at the Founder Showcase in San Francisco on June 15th. I thought I’d post on one of the topics before hand.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Karen Hayward is a Chief Outsiders Managing Partner and CMO based in the San Francisco Bay Area. And without a flight plan, that pilot is just flying blind, which is no way to reach a destination, or even land safely.

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Developer San Francisco Technical Review Sales 214

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

There are only a handful of cities on the scale of a New York or San Francisco but tens of thousands more like Hayward that have the potential to touch even more lives. 6 in San Francisco. It is important for smaller agencies to understand how they can implement this type of culture change without a big city budget.

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Government Lean Startup San Francisco 165

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

For example, at Version One we organize approximately ten founder dinners per year in locations like San Francisco, NYC, and Toronto. More and more VCs are making sure they build a community around their founders. We always make sure to invite founders from smaller ecosystems to these dinners.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

larger than the San Francisco Bay Area, whom we also love :)) and also the Northern capital of Latin America. So as Mayor Garcetti likes to say, we are not just the capital of the Pacific Rim (the Eastern Capital of Asian Trade) but also the Western capital of the United States (2.5x

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Before EcoFlow Tech, she led the San Francisco Center for Economic Development’s Southern China effort where she worked with Chinese companies across the Pearl River Delta on building and financing strategic projects in San Francisco.

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Campaign San Francisco Technical Review Flash 145

VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

Current AWS loft locations include: New York , San Francisco , Tokyo , Paris (Station F) , and Tel-Aviv (Floor28). Due to the continued concerns surrounding COVID-19, the AWS Startup Lofts remain closed until further notice. .

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Aren’t some of the recent successes in Los Angeles just emblematic of the overall long tech boom we’ve seen nationally and has led to growth in funding in NY, Boston, Seattle and San Francisco? To some extent – of course they are. But this time there really is something happening in LA. It is different. Structural.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Grand Rounds , a San Francisco based startup, acts like a healthcare assistant that provides employees access to high-quality medical care within their insurance network. Healthcare technology in the form of a smart patient assistant possesses the potential to facilitate mutually-beneficial and protracted relationships with patients.

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